Customer Privacy Policy

Protecting your privacy is important to ARTSNATION. We strive to keep your personal information confidential. By ensuring that you are aware of and understand the ARTSNATION Customer Privacy Policy, we can provide you with better service. Please take a moment to read the following policy to learn how we handle your personal information.

Why we collect personal information:

ARTSNATION collects and uses your personal information to give you superior customer service, to provide you with convenient access to our products and services, and to make a wider range available to you. In addition, we may use your personal information to keep you up to date on the latest arts announcements, special offers, and other information we think you'd like to hear about. From time to time, we may also use your personal information to contact you to participate in a market research survey, so that we can gauge customer satisfacton and develop better services.

Any information supplied to ARTSNATION.com through this web site may be provided to arts and cultural organizations for their use in marketing and promotion, advocacy, and support opportunities. In addition, data collected through this site may be tabulated for statistical purposes and shared with other organizations. Any material provided for statistical and research purposes will not be identified with the persons submitting the information.

ARTSNATION's website contains links to other sites. ARTSNATION does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies.

Why we require our members to provide their birth date for two reasons:

• ARTSNATION does not collect or store personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without express parental consent as require dby FTC guidelines and the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
• Our registration system checks the age of new members and does not accept it from users under 13.

At times we may be required by law or legal process to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose information about you if we believe that disclosure is necessary for the public interest.

Access to your personal information

You always have access to the information we have about you. To review and update your personal contact information, simply email us at info@artsnation.com

If you have questions or concerns about ARTSNATION's collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information, please email us at info@artsnation.com.

If we are going to use your personal information differently from that stated at the time of collection, we will try to contact you via email using the most recent information we have. If you have not given us permission to communicate with you, you will not be contacted, nor will we use your personal information in a new manner.

The ARTSNATION Customer Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time. We encourage you to review the privacy policy online at www.artsnation.com/ privacy.php.

Last updated November 26, 2003.
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Terms of Service

General Terms

You agree and continue to agree to use the ARTSNATION.com service in a manner consistent with all applicable laws and regulations and in accordance with the terms and conditions set out below.

By using the Service, you agree to be legally bound and to abide by the Terms of Services, just as if you had signed this Agreement. If you do not comply and/or continue to comply with the Terms of Service, ARTSNATION.com may terminate your right to access the service.

You will not engage in any conduct that in the discretion of ARTSNATION.com restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Service. You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes. You are prohibited from posting obscene, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including but not limited to , any material which encourages conduct that would constitute a crimial offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law.

ARTSNATION.com may elect to electronically monitor the Service for adherence to the Terms of Service and may disclose any Content, records or electronic communication of any kind (i) to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized governmental request, (ii) if such disclosure is necessary to operate the NARTSNATION.com Service, or (iii) to protecdt the rights or property of ARTSNATION.com or its partners.

ARTSNATION.com reserves the right to prohibit conduct, communication or content which it deems in its discretion to be harmful to individual users or other third-party rights, or to violate any applicable law.